Innocence, Justification and the Freedom found in Christ

I'm going to jam alot of theology here with this next question. I'm of the opinion that only the consideration regarding the "Truth" causes someone to stumble over any question being asked?

When does the mind of a person stop "Repenting"?

Let that simmer in the back of your mind as we hopefully move along in this mutually edifying and lengthy thought below.

What is it about the birth of a child most parents (those assumed adults) love to marvel over when we see a "New Born"?

Is it only the scent of their skin as though the clean and fresh aroma or is there more?

Is it more about the depth of their person we're somehow momentarily able to peer into when we SEE them as though small? Small which somehow allows us to gauge at least one end of the spectrum? May the front end of the full spectrum as the consideration of their "soul"?

As though a soul with a clean slate that has yet to "Observe" sin?

Observed to mean something heard? Heard to mean something that can Now be seen. Something seen because it's been brought "Into" Focus and pondered?

Something pondered upon which then becomes the desired. Desired to the point of being conceived. Conceived and then gestated unto the "Birth" process as something which then takes on a life of its Own.

Sounds like an alien movie plot doesn't it...

As a side bar, don't ever under estimate the lengths to which God will go in order to get His view (vision) across to the otherwise blind or seemingly dead (sleeping) spirit and soul and that because of the Love He does have for the spirit and soul He also caused to manifest at the address he gave them (YOU).

2 Peter 3:9
The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.
NIV

Matt 18:14
In the same way your Father in heaven is not willing that any of these little ones should be lost. 
NIV

Back to the Babes!

Do we somehow look at this infant in hopes to catch a glimpse of all that's been stored within this little bundle of joy that God has already placed on the inside of this compact package?

Who is "Able" to open this gift as though it has a "seal" in order to bring forth the "Potential"? As though the essence of this gift that's been placed within it? Just as importantly who is NOT able to open and bring forth this same potential?

Exactly how many parent child interactive studies need to be conducted before one could answer such questions?

Most people would quickly assume I'm talking about "Physical" ability which then produces long term monetary success, fame, fortune or tangible virtues which I'm not.

Instead I'm only speaking in terms of the otherwise invisible contributors. Contributors that man and his sciences will probably never be able to measure as the "Absolutes".

For now many will choose to leave such things where they "Leave" them to be and without a proper "Name".

They get treated as though the X factor in an unsolved algebraic formula because nothing else has been given an assigned or identifying mark (Name).

In my opinion and because potential has no proper name, it will in the life of many continue on and remain misunderstood as simply yet another "realm". Please take notice that I intentionally did NOT define potential as either being something negative or positive.

Why? Because when it becomes something considered measurable it can then be qualified and assigned a name as though something that takes up time and or space.

Have you ever noticed that most invisible considerations usually fall under the category of "Influence"?

Things most every one have encountered yet no two can ever seem to agree upon as it pertains to labeling such things?

We don't understand them so instead we give them fictitious names which then allows them to hide or remain hidden as if they just "Drift" around us.

Influences which then have an affect on whatever faculties our individual being has yet never really comes to "Know" much more about these invisible influences beyond doubt before their person exits this world?

Considerations such as, does the individual ever truly recognize where the potential within themselves comes from? What causes them to recognize where such things come from?

Who was originally intended to aid in finding ourselves "Able" to recognize inner potential? What can affect this potential? The importance of who judges potential whether it's to BE considered positive or negative results or maybe good or evil while in this world?

Just a side thought but have you ever taken notice that few can talk about good or evil without somehow getting around to splitting them with a topic that has them opposed to each other?

I want to now give the this said potential a little more shape and form by attaching the word "Spiritual Potential".

Does the release of this gift's spiritual potential first require a "Vision"? Is it simply a matter of not hindering the potential contained in this gift which will then recognize for itself its "Full" potential as though brought to fruition?

As though this potential has it's own vision as if its inner strength?

How much of our spiritual vision is based on what we "Hear"?

What if there is no "Vision" for this spirit potential? What if vision is the spiritual potential (power) that has yet to exist within any child?

What if this spirit potential is much like ones "Faith" which God says comes by hearing and that by His words has yet to be placed within this small vessel? Who can see and who can see enough to bless another?

Rom 10:17
So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
KJV

Surely parents can pray that God bless THEIR child, yet what if he already has? 

What if they prayed Lord help ME to be a blessing to this Child by providing me with the words that will draw out the vision you intended for this child so that I might Help as a servant and NOT hinder what you intended to be FOR them? (Emanuel)

What if the goal of parents that are also spirit "Filled" as Christ ambassadors is somehow getting the effects and "Affection" of Gods word into this vessel as though the ultimate expression of God's Love?

And we who believe call God our Father....?

Many try to MAKE their children either to be their servants or to be their friends. Those that have taught a worldly type of Friend-SHIP treat them (children) as friends before they've been taught How to be the type of Friend God defines as a "Friend".

Those that teach the way of slavery teach them slavery unto the world as they've truly teach them little to nothing about the Fathers business except how to approach God as though a slave.

John 15:13-16
Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. You are my friends if you do what I command.

I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master's business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. 

You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit — fruit that will last.
NIV

2 Cor 6:1-2
As God's fellow workers we urge you not to receive God's grace in vain. For he says,

"In the time of my favor I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped you."

I tell you,  now is the time of God's favor, now is the day of salvation.
NIV

How many Live's and how many RECORDED life examples will God use in order to show us (Mankind) the One each also pointed to in the future as the Christ (Savior)? How many will he send in order to point "Back" to the One that has already "Come" as the ONE?

How effectual do you suppose the thought of Noah's sons and there wives hearing as the reason 'WHY' they were building the ark when Noah was asked Why? 

Did he simply say to them, "Because I said so" or maybe was He as though full of Gods grace truly able to SEE and share what He could continued to SEE? 

Could he have said by way of words of His own choosing "Because God Loves and has chosen us because WE have believed Him"? 

Do you suppose his sons already had the notion in their hearts and minds that their father was righteous in God's sight? If yes and and by way of what tangible things did they gauge (measure) their thoughts? If we paint them out to be Super humans, how can their lives touch us where we find ourselves? 

How much more Christ who saw the importance to present himself in the same Flesh we wear today as hope filled "Living" beings within that same flesh handed down from the Garden (Adam)?

Is it possible that maybe they had seen as well received a portion of God's favor upon Noah as their father all long up until this point? Evidence which then "Helped" persuade them to "Believe" and follow his example?

Unless man is different today, how would the life of Noah as well his "Son's" existence play out in terms of the parent child relationship of today as both were striving in order to believe what God told them was headed their way?

Would they stay faithful to not only each other but towards the cause as if the NEED of building a SHIP because it is was the SHIP that would also save them and the ones they've loved from God's coming wrath?

What is coming as if any different in terms of results? Is what IS coming Forever lasting or is it soemthing that will simply pass like a bad case of  Intestinal Gas?

Why the emphasis on everlasting (forever)?

Because no one within all that frames the "Truth" can say, "I did NOT know" such a day was coming.

Instead in all truth those that did not know can only say, "I did NOT know such a day was coming because I did NOT believe in the ONE that was sent to warn and SAVE me such a day that was coming"....

Why only ONE?

Because it is Impossible for Christ as the ONE sent to Lie.The ONE in whom "No Sin" was found to be IN Him. Once again the chicken or the egg?

Which came first, the lie or sin as the result of the lie?

Matt 24:37-39
As it was in the days of Noah , so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. 

For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; 

and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. 

That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.
NIV


Destroyed yes, though not by water this time, but wrath and fire that will destroy what we understand as the physical existence of humanity and the world that's surrounds our NEWLY born identity?

Our identity that's going to be kept safe within the relation SHIP that's being built by Jesus the Christ as our Father?

Would believing our father suffice today especially if all that do believe Our father were also staying and working to help building a mighty 'ARK"?

How important then is the said "Example" pro-vided when we (believers) then consider Christ as our example having become said "Adult's" (matured) and that not only in Christ but as though an integral part of Christ?

Are children building things these days? Are they helping to build anything these days? Have they been prepared to participate in the building process? If so for the building of what? Who has taught them and who is blamed for NOT teaching them?

How long does it take to build a spiritual Ark when the labor force is made up of nothing but prodigal children? Just because we see what we do does NOT mean all that we see was also as though The will of God in action and that while in the flesh.

Only because Jesus has been given the 'Authority" to answer what we consider the tough questions can He then also "Provide" us who do believe with the answer we 'Need"? Authority on any level must first be given before it's true power is the direct result of someone having "Realized".

Truth is authority, yet individually in the life of a person is "Believing" also the GIVING of that authority to the One that is "Righteous"  in all that is said?

Even further all the above because of an even greater authority GIVEN to Him?

Luke 13:2-5
Jesus answered, "Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans because they suffered this way?

I tell you, no!

But unless you repent, you too will all perish. 

Or those eighteen who died when the tower in Siloam fell on them — do you think they were more guilty than all the others living in Jerusalem? 

I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish."  
NIV

How Did Noah's sons go about such a consideration as spending YEARS building sweating and tiling without at some point abandoning the vision? Is it the age old debate once more about the Chicken or the Egg as to which came first?

How important then does the SAME type of obedience then become which then SERVES as the benefit of both parent and child as it plays out in their day to day relationship? Who will inspire who in moments of weakness if Children remain children in the mind of the parent?

It's easy to be on the outside when considering one mans relationship to God, as we can see how the world around Noah SAW this same thing.

What about those that look at this same relationship from the "Inside"? Wouldn't they have to be on the inside too? How can they preceive as though from the inside if they're never brought INSIDE?

Noah's wife was one consideration as His wife as though an opinion made from the inside, yet what about his sons within and as though a part the relationship Noah and his wife had and shared?

Sons who not only believed but also believed enough to to convince their wives to "Stay" and help Noah because they too believed in this God and the cause as the Need for an Ark built?

What could they "SEE" as though a mutually shared vision and what helped build (establish) that vision within them all?

Is it all only to remain a "Great Mystery" or are we willing to look "Into" the matter?

Did they all have the same vision?

If yes, how did they come to share this same vision?

We can see today from our vantage point in time and know that God so loved the world before it was populated. We also know that God still gives men free will as we can witness this as those who heckled Noah and His sons while building the Ark.

Stop and think not only of the faith Noah must have had as though his ability to hear God, but also His sons as compared to what most see today as rebellious children?

We can blame the world today, yet was that what Noah did while in a world that soon to be destroyed while in the midst of behavior bound for hell?

Did Noah persuade His sons and their wives because He alone had such great passion for the things of God?

Noah knew something and possessed the ability to persuade His sons AND their wives to stay the course. Think for a moment just how many years while the ark was being built did his sons stay vested in the undertaking? How would that look in your life today?

See not real threat on the horizon of tomorrow? Just because we can't SEE any  threat that's also thought REAL, what does that speak? I personally see it as the sank of ignorance.

As if "Glance" at something you can't see which then becomes the manifestation of what WAS once was only the likes of a "Nightmare".

I'm not coming down on parents or preachers because I too am a parent who (like it or not) stands in the office of a preacher of sorts at times which enables me to also SEE what frustrates otherwise GOOD preaching from the pulpit.

What I'm suggesting is that the preacher needs to believe and that same believing then interpret however need be effectual and that Only done out of Love for all that Christ is and has accomplished on the cross.

Love certainly does alot, yet even more when it's been interpreted as Love as God alone see's it.

Especially in light of learning, what learning is, being apt to teach, where learned behavior comes from as well the understanding and power of words spoken, which are then "Observed" in action as though the "Truth"?

Dare I now ask "Do you consider yourself ready to have Children" if any of the above is deemed as true?

Prov 5:22-23
The evil deeds of a wicked man ensnare him; the cords of his sin hold him fast.

He will die for lack of discipline, led astray by his own great folly.
NIV

Rom 5:12-14
Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all men, because all sinned— for before the law was given, sin was in the world. But sin is not taken into account when there is no law.

Nevertheless, death reigned from the time of Adam to the time of Moses, even over those who did not sin by breaking a command, as did Adam, who was a pattern of the one to come.

When the apostle Paul uses words such as "AGAIN" in his speech (writings) it's as if he's hi-lited a very specific and important point of "Context".

I want to draw your attention to what Paul said concerning the full "Accounting" of sin. Paul made it a point to present sin as though "One Sin" and that by way of entry into this WORLD through "One Man" as if all that followed that one man until the time of Moses.

Rom 5:15-16
But the gift is not like the trespass. For if the many died by the trespass of the one man, how much more did God's grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, overflow to the many!

Again, the gift of God is not like the result of the one man's sin: The judgment followed one sin and brought condemnation, but the gift followed many trespasses and brought justification.
NIV

Is it a matter of simply getting ON the boat as I'm sure many tried to DO in the day of Noah?

Is the world going to burn or is the righteous going to come out from the furnace having been thrown into the furnace?

No matter how you see what you NEED to see unlike your spirit and soul you presently are not able to SEE, what are you hoping to preserve?

Just because you do NOT have children or may have chosen NOT to produce children still does not escape the reality of how you as though your spirit soul and body came into being.

Is this life only about everything Your flesh and all that it enjoys or will make it your concern to be about Your soul which God not only gave to you but as such you should love enough to also see it saved?

Is it only preserving people or is about saving souls?

Start with your own. Love your own soul enough to see that is gets saved, but in order to be saved you must also come to know why Saved and the Amen, but also saved from WHAT?

There is only one Sin that will send you to hell, and that is the Sin of Unbelief in Christ Jesus.

How the word Believe" interprets in the life of a believer is also framed ONLY by what Jesus alone says Love is and Does as did His father who not only told Him but also demonstrated through Him those same things....

Just shoot me now! (part two)

The children of the devil are the very one's that have believed His lies. Having placed the lies he speaks above and beyond what God says will cause any of us to be seen as "righteous" in the "sight of God" and his angelic host.

Like it or not we're ALL on display in what we do.

We often despise what we can't control especially in the form of "How" what we say or do is then interpreted by others.

Acts 2:13
Some, however, made fun of them and said, "They have had too much wine."
NIV

Moses struck what I call the "Glancing" blow, yet my interpretation of the importance of the glance is based on the "Why" Moses felt compelled to glance this way and that way BEFORE he delivered the fatal blow.

Yet still God was able to transform this same man over time did He not?

The same man that is was said at a certain time about Him was that He (Moses) was the most humble man in all the earth. When was the last time you saw a humbled present day murder?

Ex 2:12-13
Glancing this way and that and seeing no one, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand. The next day he went out and saw two Hebrews fighting. He asked the one in the wrong, "Why are you hitting your fellow Hebrew?"

The man said, "Who made you ruler and judge over us? Are you thinking of killing me as you killed the Egyptian ?" Then Moses was afraid and thought, "What I did must have become known."
NIV

Are we fast approaching the time of need of our deliverer? The one that can save us from ourselves?

If this is true as well the spirit of the Lord, are many truly being interpreted based on what we've hoped others are not able to see as though our hearts concealed?

How much of what we've assumed has been kept concealed has now resulted in the increasingly corrupt world we now find ourselves living in? Is it less corrupt NOW than it was where we read what we do in the bible when it was less physically crowded?

We find it easy to condemn the killer because of the evidence of what they DO, yet we'll forget that what was in their heart as sin was BEFORE what they supposedly DID wrong.

After the "Fact" is simply the fallout that has since found its way OUT into the open where everyone that have eyes can NOW see and that said seeing "Beyond" doubting.

I don't share what I share as though an original thought of my own. I simply find it worthy of repeating as though true because I know how "forgetfulness" has plagued humanity.

If a man wants said "Acountability" reminders at every turn of his life, simply say what is true at all times and you'll be met with those same words everywhere you go because no one will allow YOU to forget what you preach when they're accused of a crime against God.

That being especially true in an ever shrinking world we live in because eyes are everywhere, what establishes true relationships are dying while the majority are denying it.

I say that if evil is NOT being seen (perceived) to be on the rise its the direct result of what most have realigned evil to be. IMO, evil might seem to be on the rise as though an increase yet more so now because it has fewer physical places to hide.

It's shrinking because of the evil that is truly within the heart of men as such that God forewarned him (man) about...such evil that knows nothing better to do with the freedom he's been given except to hand it over to the one which causes evil to be called evil to begin with.

Because the world is shrinking in such a fashion, that which is evil within a man NOW has no choice but to try and alter what gets socially perceived as the "Truth" in order to make room for the essence of himself (selfish soul).

How else can he then hide his offense(s) in order to camouflage what he does so well in his own deception? He's simply creating more real estate because he's running out of sand dunes in order to hide the bodies...

God knew before the foundations of the world were formed that man would sin, yet was this whole event we encounter only about us? Only when we only think on ourselves individually once more?

That line of thinking might have worked IF it ALL were only about you alone and God....

I'm personally confident God has mastered the craft of making things from "Clay", yet breathing HIS likeness into anything was and still IS a very personal event as such a thought that He loved beyond the measure of a man to do so....

Man has simply failed to remember the heights from which he's fallen in terms of Holiness, who he (Man) is in the eyes of god and that as such that IS in the presence of God (the Great I AM).

Matt 15:19-20
For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder , adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander. These are what make a man 'unclean'; but eating with unwashed hands does not make him 'unclean.'"
NIV

If man does not see how responsible he is for what he has believed, then why would Jesus offer as encouragement as though the first born (of the beloved of God)?

Can a man (posses) something and never realize its reward?

John 14:21
Whoever has my commands and obeys them, he is the one who loves me. He who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love him and show myself to him."  
NIV

How important is not only our understanding concerning all that faith accomplishes, but even more the importance as our confidence in God who we then trust with the remainder of the life we now live?

Not because we HAVE believed (past tense) but because we DO believe that He hears our pleas. He hears us because He has "touched our infirmities.

As though the needs of His children who have come to KNOW Him because we DO trust all that love IS and DOES because He is more than able because of the ALL that He IS as our GOD.

Who enables us because He also defines this same God above all others in the minds of mankind? 

Jesus the Christ!

John 16:25-27

"Though I have been speaking figuratively, a time is coming when I will no longer use this kind of language but will tell you plainly about my Father. 

In that day you will ask in my name. 

I am not saying that I will ask the Father on your behalf. 

No, the Father himself loves you because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.
NIV

I don't consider it a crime to ask so I will, "Have you only believed there is a God or do you believe He is your God because He sent His son as His likeness in order to reintroduce Himself to you?

Heb 8:10

This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time, declares the Lord.
I will put my laws in their minds and write them on their hearts.

I will be their God , and they will be my people.
NIV

Acts 10:45-46
The circumcised believers who had come with Peter were astonished that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on the Gentiles .

For they heard them speaking in tongues and praising God.
NIV

1 Cor 14:21
"Through men of strange tongues and through the lips of foreigners
I will speak to this people, but even then they will not listen to me,"
NIV

Do not become the "THEY" of today who have hardened their hearts towards God.

Instead "Today" being "The Day" when you seek to hear His voice do not allow what you've chosen to believe stand in the way of your own reconciliation to the only God that is able to prove that He is righteous and "True".

What is it that you must do?

Only truly believe in His son that HE sent for You.

By His grace and because of His mercy He'll finish what He begins in terms of a relation-ship he starts and He WILL see it through until it's become a finished work that's pleasing because of what Believing in Him has accomplished.

Just shoot me now!

The one fits all phrase "love the sinner yet hate the sin" is a tired web of deception. That's like saying "I love the devil, but I hate what he does".

Where in hell did that come from?

God gave man the gift to hate that which is evil, yet has man truly learned to hate evil when he sees evil in every instance? What about when a man see's the need within himself to be delivered "From" hell?

Surely he then needs to see streets paved with gold where there are no more tears of sorrow? What doe this man then place his hope in? The picture painted of streets made of gold and the fact he'll never grieve again OR the truth about the root cause from which he's been delivered?

What has unbelief allowed into your life? I'm not only talking about benefits from Heaven, yet what I'm wanting to focus on is what believing in anything truly accomplishes.

Why shouldn't a man (person) be made aware of the same evil which includes the evil this same man has failed to acknowledge? By having failed to acknowledge it as "evil" wouldn't this practically make it a welcomed guest into his own life?

Who is capable of and strong enough to wade into the line of cover fire being presented as though the one who's trying to protect what a person believes to be true?

Jesus and his apostle's as the likes of the apostle Paul as faith filled servants said a lot of things in their life time. The large lot of those same things they said lead them to be crucified, slapped, beaten, stoned, jailed and eventually silenced (killed).

Did they say what they did out of love or because of the love for all they did believe to be true?

Were they then abused and said "Mis-treated" because of what they said was found offensive? Enough to then be judged as though a liar leveling false accusations? Only later to be blamed as a "Blasphemer" because the first charge(s) wouldn't stick to those accused?

Just because your not struck by the very one you've confronted does not mean you've not touched the nerve of someone else who is more than willing to also slap you.

That is of course unless the one that does slap you is a slave unto another master against their own free will?

Is it that believers fail to see the hand of our enemy rise to slap us OR have we failed to hear the command given to slap us because of what we've said?

Because of what this world seems to know all too well about itself, who is considered worthy of confronting what God defines as sinful behavior?

Has faith in Christ now become such that doesn't matter, "Because we are all either considered saved sinners or perfected hypocrites? Now because of the confession made of "Being" a sinner have since lost or denounced the right to address the sinful behavior we try to convince ourselves and others God no longer see's?

Think about it, why was Paul slapped? Was it because he called them law breakers or in softer terms "Hypocrites" or for having found and declared himself cleared and that in his own conscience towards God having fulfilled his duty?

Acts 23:3
You sit there to judge me according to the law, yet you yourself violate the law by commanding that I be struck!" NIV

Having failed to see God as the ONLY one that is good makes room for so much more in our lives. When we don't this way, how does the consideration that ONLY "God is good" remain true? Truth which then serves us as believers in a God that is said to be Good in ALL that he does? 

How can it serve in any capacity unless we also come to know beyond doubt about the things Goodness either does or doesn't do despite being wrongfully accused?

All that GOOD does as though a consideration of any matter at hand which is then "Drawn" in order for all men to reach for one and the same conclusion?

As believers in Christ we say we get the part about God that says "God is Love", yet did we truly receive the portion of God that is "Love" and that as His spirit?

That same spirit which then compels us to do what we choose to do having come into aggreement with that same spirit?

1 John 4:17-18
There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.
NIV

Why does a mere man feel as though the weight of what God has placed upon him when His word says His burden is Lite? The same God who then tells the man to love his enemies having satisfied the greatest fear any man should have which is death?

Would you deem it to be true if I suggested that God would not instruct you to do anything He himself has not already done? That to include that God would not ask you to do something he has also NOT made you capable of doing?

Is God true or are you the liar that now gives the order to slap because you've found what is being said offensive?

How far does the hand of unmerited favor reach in your life? How hard is any job thought to be difficult without the fore thought of all that might prevent success?

Was the ruin Moses saw because of what He believed concerning God OR because of what he knew about man which included himself (the ones he was being tasked with watching over)?

If Moses were to be viewed as the author of these following passages, how would this commentary about himself sit with you? Especially if you were to read 12:3 before you read what came from his mouth in chapter 11?

Num 12:3
3 (Now Moses was a very humble man, more humble than anyone else on the face of the earth.)
NIV

Num 11:13-17
 I cannot carry all these people by myself; the burden is too heavy for me. If this is how you are going to treat me, put me to death right now — if I have found favor in your eyes — and do not let me face my own ruin."

The LORD said to Moses: "Bring me seventy of Israel's elders who are known to you as leaders and officials among the people.

Have them come to the Tent of Meeting, that they may stand there with you. I will come down and speak with you there, and I will take of the Spirit that is on you and put the Spirit on them. They will help you carry the burden of the people so that you will not have to carry it alone.
NIV

Just how important is the spreading of the Gospel as opposed to NOT having spread the gospel? Not having spread the gospel which then as though somehow a mystery that leads your fellow "Man" to his own ruin as the end result?

Do we as believers NOT want success to take its spiritual course in time as such appointed by the mouth of God? If we do hope for success in such an endeavor then surely we must pray the same strength that only He has as if our hope being able to "SEE" the remainder of Gods enemies since reconciled to Him.

When something gets killed what dies with it? How different the office of the apostle's of Christ if it were to also be killed off?

Anything the believer in Christ is given is not given for personal gain. Instead it's given for the mutual edification of the entire Body Of Christ.

Lest we forget when one part of the body suffers the whole then suffers with it?

James 4:2-3
You want something but don't get it. You kill and covet, but you cannot have what you want. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask God. When you ask, you do not receive , because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.
NIV

Surely the Lord loves mankind even while he was a sinner, yet that understanding was not intended to continue as though a license to continue to sin.

Does unbelief only plague your life or do you find the mercy of Gods grace as the unmerited favor of God which only provides what you want?

We'll coin catch phrases like, "You can lead a horse to water but you can't make Him drink" yet what image does that require when we wrongfully borrow from this type of metaphor?

Does that picture also require a bit and bridle OR does it require the image of a carrot, apple or a bucket of water in the hand that is considered able to lead that horse anywhere?

Is it about the apple or water or does it have more to do with "hunger or thirst" doing their part in the leading?

Ps 32:9-11
Do not be like the horse or the mule, which have no understanding but must be controlled by bit and bridle or they will not come to you.

Many are the woes of the wicked, but the LORD's unfailing love surrounds the man who trusts in him.

Rejoice in the LORD and be glad, you righteous; sing, all you who are upright in heart!
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How does the believer love another that's trapped in sin while forgetting about the potential troubles that might also come "Their Way"?

Is that "Way" your way or is it the way of the Lord?

Has the governing rules of a life in Christ changed since these words were spoken? If so, by what authority?

Matt 22:29
Jesus replied, "You are in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God
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Rom 1:16
I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile.
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Maybe your gift is that you've not found yourself in need of deliverance from something which can bind you, but what about those that have found themselves bound?

How much of what YOU choose to believe is ONLY for your eternal benefit?

Surely if we can read that the kingdom of God is not about words alone, but it's about "Power" yet where does this endowment of power come from? 

The Gospel?

The gospel as the power of God is what the believer is supposed to be battling the spiritual cause's of evil with and not just words and and money. Those things contianed in the Gospel were intended to be used in order to attract those that do find themselves in "Need".

Why? Because they have since found themselves in "Need" of all that God not only has to offer but alsothat He is "Willing" to offer to those in need of Him.

Jesus didn't dabble with the demonic nor did the Apostle's, yet they believed beyond doubt they had also been given dominion over such evil forces.

Who would possibly benefit from any OTHER type of attitude which concern the Lord that is Love?

Being nice is one thing and usually proves only to be temporary in light of the things which wage war against the said "Believer's" true Identity.

A child being influenced and that by the wrong sort speaks to lack of what?

Spiritual Parenting? Parented as though sinners themselves who also wink at what?

The truth maybe?

What defines who God's children are in contrast to what also defines who the children of Devil are?

How are we to discern between the two if everything we believe stays locked away in our tidy little minds?

To be continued if You'll join me in the mutual effort to believe and to put on the mind of Christ

Will you miss Jesus while on your mission to heaven?

Momentum is not always a good thing, especially when you are wanting to come to an abrupt stop in order to hit your intended target.

I'm a fanatic for a good sci-fi movie especially those that involve activities which take place in outer space. I personally enjoy the story line where there's only One shot at saving the day which leaves little to zero room for mistakes.

Those scenes where the astronaut is tethered and then launched from the space craft with just enough oxygen to accomplish the task at hand and with the added twist that when they launch themselves toward their target they use all the jet pack fuel getting there with no room for miscalculations.

That's talking about "Science "Fiction", but what I want to take a look at today is something many opinions consider to be "Fiction".

In the mind of the person that is willing to believe there is hope, yet is it this same "will" which leads us to believe that somehow then brings what we have believed into manifestation?

Would it not be more accurately observed that we too who have "Agreed" (believed) would then get to enjoy "Seeing" what was prophesied come to pass?

Why were the biblical prophets of old also called "Seers'?

What caused them to be able to "See" into a realm where the things of the future then "Took or Assumed" their rightful place within the coming time(s)?

Did they always get to enjoy what came to pass?

Wouldn't that depend upon how we who are examining that same question as though in their stead also define as our present understanding concerning what "Joy" is today?

There is Almighty Power and there is the pursuit of power that looks to suppress, displace or overthrow the joy of the Almighty and those who hope to bath in its beauty to include the timing of all that the Almighty has appointed to assume its rightful place in time.

What a believer should want is for the "The One" that was sent from the Almighty (and that to include everything He did prophecy) to eventually come to pass. It is His prophecy that we as believers should also want to enjoy as such that we place our hope in.   .

We hope not only as though what He says is true, but as such that becomes our reality that is real in that it becomes a "Hope" that speaks "Now' (today). This same hope that has little regard for the things which cause the fears of a surrounding world.

The fears, cares and anxieties presented by a world which all but looks to suffocate their dying spiritual condition as though breathing air that has NO life in it much like a fire that laps all the oxygen out of the air.

In terms of there being said "Different" realms and all those that are outside the said realm of a present reality, how many of those realms exist because of a lie and how many of those realms otherwise invisible to the naked eye are tried and have proved to be true (real)?

Is it once again back to square One, as in "What is the "Truth"?

I want to talk about a word that has been traditionally taught as though the bedrock of Christianity.

It's a word that most Christian's want to hear as though a statement of closure as if to say "It is done" or "Mission accomplished".

The root word is "Saved" and the expanded version of that is better known as "Salvation".

When You hear someone suggest they're "Saved" what do you hear being spoken? Is it something you've found nestled between the realm of 'Hope" and what you are willing to accept as "Reality"?

Let me ask this, where is truth in the midst of what you have hope for?

Assuming your hope IS something of greater worth than all you possess, is it a beautiful picture of "Hope" painted upon your heart which cause others to at least pause as if able to see something peculiar?

Having been found peculiar and attractive even if in an odd way and that only because of it's surrounding contrast?

If you were to attempt to render God on a canvas who would it look like? If you asked a thousand people to render God what would their portrayal of God speak?

We joke when we see the rendering of a person on a wall whose eyes move when someone walks past. We can look at our own image in the mirror yet forget that our eyes require staying fixed no matter the attitude our bodies might twist and turn in order to see the "Rest" of ourselves.

Ether way both speak that what we're looking at is also alive.

Unfortunately there are many Gods in the minds of men , but how has the God that you serve touched your heart?

Does your picture of God and savior only display YOU going to heaven?

People being the humans that they are, we seem to have become addicted to hearing things the way WE want to hear them in our efforts to maintain our unique mindset(s) or comfort zone found "our Way"!

Some have to hear what they want to hear as though listening to their particular genre' of music. Some like it country, some like it jazzed up, some like to rap it and some like to hear a choir sing it.

Have you ever shared something with someone and they'll disagree to then assume the posture as though their willing to stay engaged yet only under the terms where their version gets equal air time and stated as though the Gospel?

After hearing them out as if a rebuttal to what you just said "your" next thought is, "I thought that's what I just said"?

What is it that truly gets revealed through these type of exchanges?

In terms of the everlasting or eternal perspective, is it that Jesus saves You because of your personal understanding concerning the relationship you have with Him or are you saved because Your ability to relate to Him has been opened and made available?

If your life testimony were being recorded in the mind of God  as though fire and spiritual relationship where others can find warmth, how hot is you flames?

Picture the apostle Peter standing around the fire barrel where he denounced knowing Christ when asked if he was with one of those with Him (Jesus)?

Just imagine the things of this world as if they ask of us daily, "Are you with Him"?

What if someone's grandfather followed Christ, but their earthly father didn't?

Where would such a consideration then find us today if both had since passed away leaving you with nothing to consider?

What do you do now? What would you then look to as if a picture of God?

Will you leave behind words alone or words that are alive and active?

Do you feel like a slave to this world and the things that seem to dominate the minds of mere men that are of this world who have failed to show forth the genealogy embedded in Faithfullness towards the one true God

Neh 9:32-38
"Now therefore, O our God, the great, mighty and awesome God, who keeps his covenant of love, do not let all this hardship seem trifling in your eyes — the hardship that has come upon us, upon our kings and leaders, upon our priests and prophets, upon our fathers and all your people, from the days of the kings of Assyria until today.

In all that has happened to us, you have been just; you have acted faithfully, while we did wrong.

Our kings, our leaders, our priests and our fathers did not follow your law; they did not pay attention to your commands or the warnings you gave them. Even while they were in their kingdom, enjoying your great goodness to them in the spacious and fertile land you gave them, they did not serve you or turn from their evil ways.

"But see, we are slaves today, slaves in the land you gave our forefathers so they could eat its fruit and the other good things it produces.

Because of our sins, its abundant harvest goes to the kings you have placed over us. They rule over our bodies and our cattle as they please. We are in great distress.

"In view of all this, we are making a binding agreement, putting it in writing, and our leaders, our Levites and our priests are affixing their seals to it."
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There are a multitude of ways to express the same thing, yet how many "Ways" are there where two or more people come into agreement on any one particular thing?

Now take the essence of what's been expressed above and transplant that into a mutually understood classroom setting

What happens when the voice of authority in a contemporary setting loses it's said strength or power within that setting?

I can almost hear someone saying, "That would depend on the age and or the level of maturity of the students?

Alas, we've hit pay dirt!

Now, copy and paste that over to a bible study setting most rely upon as the venue where what they believe is shaped and molded.

Same dynamic' in play with teacher and students, except in this setting it's been clearly broadcast the context as though the only requirement is Spiritual Maturity?

What is automatically assumed?

Put the lid on that thought and set it to the back burner for a few as I want to now apply something a little more foreign to some.

Now, lets add life to this classroom and invite Jesus as the teacher, and some of His faithful witnesses who can testify to His teaching. What do we then believe when all other voices are silenced?

It should only be the flesh which finds a GOOD mystery as such that remains a mystery.

I encourage you as you make the choice to believe. Stop trusting only in what you feel and instead trust only because of the authority you've given unto Christ that now causes you to believe and continue to learn so you CAN truly feel His Love for you.

Trusting the dead will rise is where the battle begins and that because you see yourself as though dead without Jesus Christ.

1 Cor 15:50-54

I declare to you, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.

Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed— in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.

For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: "Death has been swallowed up in victory."
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Ask yourself this before you read this next segment "Who are They and who is he talking to when the author says You"?

2 Thess 1:9-10
They will be punished with everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the majesty of his power on the day he comes to be glorified in his holy people and to be marveled at among all those who have believed. This includes you, because you believed our testimony to you.
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The Renewal (part?)

Many have believed and accepted the thought that"Knowledge is Power" and some have made this alone to be their God that now rules their world. sw

Where suffering is the least desirable of considerations, sin takes the victory. sw

The ancients have surely spoke wisdom before God, yet who will be wise and take heed. sw 

Job 13:5
"If only you would be altogether silent! For you, that would be wisdom". NIV

Zeph 1:7
Be silent before the Sovereign LORD, for the day of the LORD is near.
The LORD has prepared a sacrifice; he has consecrated those he has invited. NIV

Prov 12:5-6

5 The plans of the righteous are just, but the advice of the wicked is deceitful.

6 The words of the wicked lie in wait for blood, but the speech of the upright rescues them.
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Many have refused to look into why the blood of bulls and goats could not forever satisfy the full requirement(s) of God concerning the SIN of a man.

How easy it for a man that was given dominion over the animals which roam the earth to then kill and offer them unto the Lord? As if it that sacrifice would somehow truly touch a mans heart enough he too felt a part of the suffering which brought about cleansing by an animal he might also choose to eat in another day?

How easy today has it become in a world increasingly being filled with calloused hearts where the heart of a father has become numb when He see's his own OR the son of another die? The son who suffered the lost opportunity to know the heart of having also become a father?

A man that has died and that because of something one or both neglected to honor and observe as something of true value and that as the life lived and realized as the importance only one kind of love that only a father can show forth as a son of God?

Some look to the stars for signs of things to come yet they'll ignore that the sons of God will shine like the stars in heaven in the day that is "Coming".

The day when the Sons of God are revealed for who they are because of the mercy that found them and who they increasingly became like as each walked the face of the earth within the same knowing and awareness as to whom they each also belong to.

Without hope that is true, so to the man who grasp at water with the open hand hoping to quench his thirst.

Man continues to ignore the not so obvious consideration's God desires. Desires which have been placed on display for all to see. Man fails to truthfully examine Gods "Image" as he hides behind the cloak of the flesh.

The image as though the presence and evidence through and by which God has put on display concerning the power and strength of His glory. Such power that is at work within those who have believed not only in Christ but also one day to be revealed having been "Found" to in Christ.

1 Cor 10:31-11:1
So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God . Do not cause anyone to stumble, whether Jews, Greeks or the church of God— even as I try to please everybody in every way. For I am not seeking my own good but the good of many, so that they may be saved.
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Man will look to the clouds, hear the thunder roll and cautiously watch flashes of lightning cross the horizon in anticipation of the Lords return. Yet as soon as the storm has passed it becomes business as usual while blending once again into the greenery of the surrounding world.

The question still remains unanswered, "Will a man only consider his own ways as evil when he see's himself as though to be in the presence of God? Does his present life get lived as though God is NOT present in some way?

Who has taken the spirit of God with them on a journey through the land of the prostitute? The hills of the Liar? The den of fornicators? The plains of the unfaithful or the desert of those thought forgotten?

To then have come out from such places while finding refreshing in knowing full well the wake they've left behind has done no harm and diminished in now way the things of God?

How great is our Savior and deliverance when a man dwells only upon what we have been saved from? Who will inform the man that He is the prodigal son while in the way?

As well who will inform the brother of the prodigal that today he too enjoys the benefit of what does belong to the Father and those found by Father to be living as though IN His household?

Such a place where the "Living" sacrifice(s) of God He considers acceptable enough to hear well done my good and faithful servant?

Many are stumbling over the promise of Grace and some rightfully so, yet the Lord would have no need to use the words "Well DONE" if nothing need be "Done" by those that DO because they belong to Him.

One can NOT do in order to receive His grace, yet one can DO because of Gods grace and as the evidence of His mercy shown.

1 Peter 4:1-3

Therefore, since Christ suffered in his body, arm yourselves also with the same attitude, because he who has suffered in his body is done with sin.

As a result, he does not live the rest of his earthly life for evil human desires, but rather for the will of God. 

For you have spent enough time in the past doing what pagans choose to do — living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing and detestable idolatry. NIV

Consider this encouragement for those who have believed in the redemptive demonstration of love for us our Lord and our Christ Jesus has put on display.

Also for those who choose to believe in Christ, it is our reality as it pertains to life and death as such that has since been found only in Jesus the Christ and Son of the living God.

Stop living and putting on display such a presence as though God is dead and be filled with His Holy Spirit. Show forth the goodness of God because He is alive in you and directs you in each moment in your walk of faith.

Much like when on fast do not put on the face of one as though somehow suffering, yet be encouraged in the refreshing of The Holy spirit we're also told to fan into flame and feed on the spiritual manna come down from heaven (words of God).

When God presence has become only a book to a man then surely that man will eventually place it on a shelf among all others he's collected as though Knowledge needed in order to live.

Col 2:17
.....the reality, however, is found in Christ.
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It has been sent and said from the mouth of those God has appointed from the womb to inform those who have chosen to believe, that WE have need of not only a savior but also the need for the "renewal" of our minds.

A glimpse of this need for the renewal of our minds as well part of our hope can be seen when the Apostle Peter spoke from the place of his then present understanding as though to prevent or alter the course of what had already been ordained and set in motion from the mouth of God as such that must come to pass.

Though Peter was in the midst of that prophecy coming to pass, he could NOT also see himself as a participant while standing directly in front of God in the flesh.

Peter as though thoroughly convinced within his personage (heart, mind, soul and strength) was "All in" favor of everything Christ said was held in store for him and others who believed. When Peter did verbally present to Jesus the portion of his mind that still needed to be renewed, he spoke from the place of his then limited understanding.

How much more did Peter discover about himself and others after his person spoke and was then referred to by the Lord as if "Satan" had just spoken?

Do you suppose Peter struggled at any part of the remainder of his life after having heard such words come from the mouth of God in the flesh?

Might there have been subtle reminders along the way exclusively for the spiritual benefit of Peter and ourselves today as Christ continued to speak to his disciples about things to come? About the continuation of this prophecy that is Being fulfilled even today?

I often wonder if Peter came to loath hearing a rooster crow? Maybe sitting straight up from a sound sleep every morning at dawn only then to realize it was yet another day that also came with a reminder while hearing the rooster as he lived out the remainder of his life?

Mark 13:35-37
"Therefore keep watch because you do not know when the owner of the house will come back — whether in the evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows , or at dawn. 

If he comes suddenly, do not let him find you sleeping. What I say to you, I say to everyone: 'Watch!'" 
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Do you think Peter had trouble sleeping OR staying awake after the weight of what he previously could NOT see later came into focus? The same Peter that seemed to have a history of falling asleep in the hour of coming suffering and that of another?

Mark 14:37-38
Then he returned to his disciples and found them sleeping. "Simon," he said to Peter, "are you asleep? Could you not keep watch for one hour? Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the body is weak."
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Acts 12:7
Suddenly an angel of the Lord appeared and a light shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side and woke him up. "Quick, get up!
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Rev 3:3
But if you do not wake up , I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what time I will come to you.
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Peter the same rock upon the likes of whom Christ said he would build His church that was also able to recognize who Jesus in the flesh was when ask, "Who do You say that I am"?

Matt 26:74-75
Immediately a rooster crowed. Then Peter remembered the word Jesus had spoken: "Before the rooster crows , you will disown me three times." And he went outside and wept bitterly.
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When Peter did later come to terms with what Jesus said to him, did it convert and play a part in his boldness as he knowingly inched forward in his approach to his own death?

Did his renewed mind increasingly speak in boldness after having deeply considered and replayed all that Jesus had spoken to him in times past?

What about you? Whose words revisit when you need to reflect upon what Jesus spoke directly into your life by way of the Holy Spirit?

 Have you found yourself able to discern the voice of your savior while engaged in some of those inner conversations we seemingly love to have within our secret place of reasoning?

Does Christ have his say in those internal debates we try to have when we CAN find a quite moment in this increasingly noisy world OR do we today find ourselves nodding off because we have grown tired?

Does Jesus sit in the highest seat on the panel where debates are held and choices are made? Does the voice of your soul have a tendency to try and talk "Over" the sound of His voice when He does try to speak?

Does silence put you to sleep or does it heighten the awareness of His spirit within you as though a part of Him where it has been trained to discern the value of both silence and the sound of the Lord's voice?

If we believe Christ, He has also informed us that His sheep do "Hear" His voice which to me interprets  that He does speak, yet does that address the full spectrum of a conversation where we learn from Him? How does that reflect within the thought that those that can hear Him also "Have ears that can hear"?

People assume what they think from one moment to the next has no affect on them as long as they don't speak what they think, but does that remove such thoughts from speaking out at the wrong time in the future?

That being in the noisy and crowded room of opinions which inconveniently haunts us all and usually at the most inopportune time(s)?

The word of God advises us to hold captive every thought unto Christ. It also tells to guard every "idle" word we speak unless we too be judged by those words.

What about the next time those thought(s) surface?

Have they been dealt with along the "Way" as though through the process of the renewal of our minds prior to the onset and throws of yet another crisis in your life blind siding you?

Have you made preparations in the anticipation of an attack by our mutual enemy and that as though the need for the renewal of you mind?

Do you lack discernment?

Don't blame God as though He hasn't given you such a gift, look in the mirror, turn off the surrounding noise and listen? Then ask yourself what you hear or do not hear and then judge righteously who speaks to you how they do and possibly why you CAN'T hear the sound of the voice of Christ.

Rom 12:2
2 Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is — his good, pleasing and perfect will.
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May God bless and keep you stayed in the things which pertain to life eternal. The LIFE that has already began for those who believe they are now found In Christ...

The "Renewal" (part one)

Beyond the basic needs (health, wealth and protection) of everyday life what does a believer truly depend upon as though ONLY the Lord has provided same day in and day out?

When we really get down to brass tax having ask such a question, what does a believer receive from the Lord that anyone can say beyond doubt that a non believer does "Not" also receive? That is enough that anyone could "Plainly" discern the difference between the two?

Just to name a few, consider the Sunshine & rain that falls on and can be "Seen" effectual in the life of all man?

What about equally seeing other things seemingly in the possession and or life of a human being such as land, a house, car, health, sickness, the reality of death in our mortal bodies, money, poverty, retirement account(s), college fund, wife, kids, family, friends, influence, beauty, charisma, physical strength, athletic ability, intellect, wisdom, knowledge, understanding? The list could go on and on.

Would it not also depend upon who it is that defines each one of those? As well how each did find its way INTO the individual life of a persons?

What about "Peace, Joy, Righteousness and unity found ONLY in and by way the Holy Spirit who is said to reside within every NEW creation? Found within each and every believer simultaneously and that as such that God has brought forth?

One God, One Christ and One spirit that compels living within us and counseling with the sound of the voice of ONE?

Is our special occasion in a relationship with God here on earth only when we as believers get something the other sect (non-believer(s) does not?

What does hope look like and what does a spiritually dead man walking appear as and who is able to discern enough to then care?

Is it even possible to find words that can express that as (ask) a said "Fair question" and that of God?

Especially when you're also the one that's going to have to interpret as to whether or not He did respond specifically to YOUR stand alone question(s) aimed at His person?

Who is going to validate and or come into agreement with you that any response was truly from God? Why isn't the witness of His Holy spirit sufficient for most that say they believe? Is due to lack of power which is said to accompany His spirit?

2 Tim 1:7
For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power , of love and of self-discipline.
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When as a believer we do trust that He did respond to our request made, is the answer always thought to be "Good" when it does come?

Would that also not place us in the seat of an esteemed opinion (decision made) as to what Gods "Goodness" is in whatever form He puts on display?

Brother's and sisters God is under attack, yet not the kind we have truly come to terms with while inhabiting the current flesh we reside in. The God (Christ) that is in us is under attack!

Yes vengeance belongs to the Lord, yet as believers we have an obligation to defend the portals we have been given dominion over which resides on each of our shoulders.

Yes the eyes, ears and mouth which also belong to the Lord despite what the world and it's temptation(s) request of us to consider as "ourselves".

Though somehow thoughts of our being different in His "unique" way of presenting us all to the world are being robbed of their mutual effectiveness all of which were intended for our corporate edification which then works inwardly towards us all and eventually finds us all individually united as ONE.

He is spirit AND according to His word, He is in ALL, through ALL and by Him are ALL things held together.

According to His word and in terms of the 3rd heaven where we trust that He resides there is no gender specifics as we currently understand as though the differences a corrupt world then goes to great extremes to point out (exploit) as such between male and female, the differences between Jew or Greek and the advantages and disadvantages held between slave and free.

An extreme perversion of what God has created is anything that attempts to identify itself as though made separately and or as a stand alone portion of humanity is an abomination in the eyes of the Lord. There are segments of society that are trying to force their fellow man to accept them as if a NEW creation that has come into "Being" as such that is outside of what God declares that HE alone created.

A person can call themselves what they want as though a separate consideration among humanity, yet when such an identity goes against (opposes) what God says He created in HIS likeness is to suggest that their identity must also be accepted and that of the Lord is a lie.

When any cause whether it be sexual in nature (gender) the way God created it or it be the difference in appearance, the spirit within is what the war is about and NOT what any person(s) have alleged themselves to be otherwise.

There is ONLY what He has chosen to be. All of which can only be righteously interpreted through the filtering and or discerning WORDS that have come from His mouth as Lord. All else simply scoffs at what God has declared will eventually come to pass in His timing.

Whether it be the individuals that call themselves "Homosexuals" Muslims or Christians, God alone will ultimately define who's who and who does NOT belong to Him. Do not be alarmed at the claim made, yet be afraid of what is NOT in Gods eyes....

In terms of the word "Be" and such without a name, are you simply a human "Being" , yet as a human what are you presently trying to "Be-come" and that without the spirit of the Lord bringing that to pass?

A child of God or a child that's been fathered (sired) by AND further nurtured BEING fed by lies day to day?

When does a man know he's been deceived? Before or after revelation comes? When revelation does come what does it produce as a transforming work from within?

A man can have an inner thought yet what Good is that thought if it never finds its way into the thing God sent it forth to accomplish?

The bible makes many references to the contrast between the believer and the non-believer.

Why is each as though a name assigned so important?

Is it important only here and now OR is it ONLY a factor that's in play in the bye and bye (what takes place as an everlasting consideration)? When does eternity begin for the old or new creation? Is it only when it first dies? If yes when and where does it die and why?

Let's discuss power for a moment and I'm not just talking about the stuff that comes from the utility company. Let's associate power with the ability to somehow accomplish in terms of "creating" something, but that something that has been created must also have come from nothing.

Mankind has fallen in love with the phrase "Self Made". We'll hear shadowy phrases used to try and identify (give shape and form) to this power along the lines of a "Self made millionaire, or we'll hear someone referred to as a "Self made man" as if to suggest "Look what I have done".

I hate to be the one that breaks the news, BUT this is not something new or original and if it's NOT something new, 'What is it"?

No in fact such a concept was before you or I came into existence.

If that be true, would that not also make whatever looks like this same "Thing" man has yet to properly name some how be related to it?

Where did it come from though one should ask?

The beauty behind something that has truly been "Created" and that from said "Nothing" (nothing man can do), that consideration if proved would squash nearly all other arguments with regard to something evolving, devolving (if there is such a word) and would only leave you with questions that pertains to who was "Involved" in the creation of anything said "New".

Everything that has to do with humanity, his flesh and its nature in common is "Old". So ask yourself, am I a New Creation and that in the Lord and then in truth examine what you do see taking place within you and compare that to what Christ says should be taking place when He has been made the true "Lord" over that accounting method?

Just like I'm using the word "Old" to describe something without shape and form used is only to suggest that because something has a point of origin that's been established it becomes history and is no longer "New".

If you are a believer, Gods word says that once you've been born again You are a "New" creation.

IF you can accept that would that not also make all "Excuses" we once USED as if to explain the way we were from our rebirth forward as such to be considered as though an "Old" excuse for the reason we are now what we claim to be (Born AGAIN)?

If I stretched this thing just a bit wouldn't that also strip the believer in Christ as a NEW creation of the entitlement if and when we TRY to USE others from our past as though THEY made us to be ANYTHING we now claim to NOW be?

In the face of revelation that would include what we ignored, what we once believed, what shape(s) and molds our behavior over the course of 1, 10, 20, 30 or however many years we claim to have been a NEW creation growing up and that in the Lord?

Who has been our teacher?

The Holy Spirit or man? Who has been the voice we say we hear and obey? The good shepherd or the self declared saints we love to follow, measure our progress by and then allow to mentor us as though the bench mark?

Tough question coming here, who is your shepherd and who lead you to be assigned to them specifically as if left to their care?

A nation whether thought to be Godly or ungodly will not stand for very long under a divisive ruler. God declares a kingdom of priest and a Holy Nation, yet not as such that is geographically identified under the new covenant.

I want to nourish this thought but I don't want to get ahead of the original thoughts about it that I trust the Lord has given me. I hope to share what I also believe to be needed in the midst of a world that seems to be nearly full of blame that should also be shared.

What does shared blame do though if that's even a possibility? How does wide spread blame that also extends to some that are no more (no longer here) now repent and turn back to the Lord?

I pray that what I do share has been shared with those that do have a common goal in mind which is OUR eternal salvation and not just what we think we know.

Much of what we think we know TODAY has been handed to us. Does that automatically qualify same to then interpret "From the spirit of the Lord"?

I suppose that would depend upon if what we now have is also the perfected body of Christ and that by the everlasting Love of God himself.

Each generation participates yet how each performs is only to be judged by whom we have believed what they also believe which then speaks if we allow it where we now find ourselves in the Love of God that is also for us.

All of which has also lead us to the condition we're in which we also desire deeply to be considered acceptable in the eyes of our creator.

If what we are is ALL that God intended the body of Christ to become, what is there left to say or do?

If we are all acceptable in the eyes of the Lord, then I nor anyone else has any thing they can say in order to compliment what the Lord has set out to accomplish.

If the body of Christ has made herself ready all that could be said as well be found righteous is "Lord come quickly to retrieve with your NET the results and purpose for which you originally sent your word to us so that we might believe and be reconciled to You.

 I pray you'll join me Lord willing and I ask that you prayerfully consider what I share which I trust has been given to for the edification of those that do make up the body of Christ in the earth. We can truly do nothing for the body of Christ unless the those same things we do and say are by way of the leading of the Holy Spirit.

Have any of US arrived yet? No, yet being ready to sit down to eat and drink first requires an appetite, and both of those for all that has been prepared and set before us.

If no, then yes there is still much to be done. If we're truly found to be In Christ and Christ In US, it's always the yes and Amen.

Taking time to be Holy is more than reading, asking God for material things. Often finding Holy can begin with realizing the needs of others while truthfully considering the importance of coming into agreement pertaining to what God tells us will also unite and perfect the body of Christ.

Reading the word of God very slowly coupled with timely pauses (meditation) in the timing of the Lord as we first ask and then "Wait" for revelation regarding the condition of the body of Christ here in the earth as well those that have labored prior to our lively existence.

Becoming "Impatient" is NOT a quality we should desire especially when what we petition involves waiting on the Lord God that is a part of all things.

There should be little differences when we do compare between the birthing of the first century saints as compared to those today except for the theater through which God displays Himself to either. Especially when say we know Jesus is the same yesterday today and forever as Our GOD that also does NOT change.

Believing and knowing the person of Christ takes as long as you are here as we individually and corporately endure the circumstances we NOW find ourselves in otherwise we've stepped out on a spiritual vacation.

There is a part that is supposed to be continually dying because it has been weighed against as though opposed to the one who is Holy as well the other part (spiritually renewed mind) that's supposed to be alive that has been Increasingly made aware (alive) of the example given as our Christ who then participates in the Leading of the NEW Creation who will be properly introduced once all things have been made new.

Judge for yourselves what is righteous so you too will NOT be judged. Just because we justify whatever it is that we do, that does not suggest or vacate the thought of Jesus telling any of us that " I never He never You".

Knowing Him to mean as such that moves ahead in Him in order to know Him intimately.

We can claim that was then and this is now when we read the words of eye witnesses of Christ while here in the flesh, yet if by FAITH we today are to BE an even greater part of who they are or were how do we find ourselves NOW?

Do we find our condition today equal to, lessor than, or further along having operated in the denial of a pro-visional Lord?

I will not apologize for what I hold out in the hope for, yet I will suggest that I am "Be-coming" more and more ashamed of the said "WE" that claim to be a part of those "Called Out" as those which belong to the Lord.

When we alone govern ourselves, what should we come to expect when do find that we've been deceived?

Forgiveness yes, when met with repentance in keeping with the Godly defined "broken, humbled and contrite heart", but what remains and continues on to also be found tried and then true will always be what God has done as well what His word did or did NOT accomplish when we as said believers say we've been formed and made to be like Christ.

Made how, self made? No, yet instead as the good and effectual result(s) of what we were willing to "Believe" about His person as though only ONE that has been doing whatever it is that gets done in our lives having been lead By His Spirit.

John 3:19-21
This is the verdict : Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. 

Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. 

But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God.
NIV


1 Cor 6:2-3
Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if you are to judge the world, are you not competent to judge trivial cases? Do you not know that we will judge angels ?

How much more the things of this life!
NIV

Rom 12:1-3
Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God — this is your spiritual act of worship.

Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.

Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is — his good, pleasing and perfect will.

For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the measure of faith God has given you.
NIV

ALL will forever mean all as well ONE will only become when One has also brought forth the ONE in the ALL.

Don't believe me? Ask the ones that were "Beings" (angels) before mankind that have fallen beyond recovery if you should find your self there with them in the day of revealing as to Who any of us are in the light of TRUTH.

We are called to longer sin. Do we then continue only to ask "How" that is possible OR do we move beyond what we don't know and pursue the one with whom ALL things are possible?

It doesn't say when "Unbelievers" heard this instead it said "the disciples". Who are they and who are we?

Matt 19:25-26

When the disciples heard this, they were greatly astonished and asked, "Who then can be saved?"

Jesus looked at them and said, "With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible ."
NIV

If we spend our life time seeing ourselves as simply sinners, how does the word "New" then sound when we then ourselves wanting more of who the Lord says we cab do or be? When does the old forget how to be as if OLD unless we truthfully consider forgiveness that remembers our sins "No more"? Do we somehow participate when we are Re-minded of ourselves when we do perform like the Old?

Who have we blamed (or lay such credit to) as having had dominion over us when we do? What we've only been told God has been forgotten or what we've "Believed" God has forgiven AND forgotten?

I suppose that would depend upon what the word "Believe" truthfully does mean when said from the mouth of God and NOT what mankind is claiming he ALSO completely understands?

Has a man "completely" Understood as though ONE with GOD in His suggestion to be Holy as He is Holy?

What if Holy were to mean "Being in Agreement" and that in every opportunity we do "Find"? Would that oppose what Jesus spoke concerning the father and son not only "Being" One yet also agreeing as One before anything gets accomplished (takes place) as set forth?

No more means what? Sin no more?

Or does it mean rely on the leading of the Lords spirit within us and we will NOT as a result find ourselves continuing to live as though "Full" of the Sin nature versus being Filled by His spirit?

Instead living as the likeness of Jesus who was and is "Spirit" before he put on flesh and walked among men because He only did as he heard and or saw the father doing (guiding)?

Can't hear God? Then yes that presents a huge problem. Do you get to choose "when" you hear God?

If as an infant that's also unfamiliar with the sound of His voice, then once again a huge problem, because that would place you alone as the one determining what is righteous in everything you choose to do.

Once again, "Who is your shepherd and who have you given the entirety of that trust to as it pertains to what Jesus did in all truth give to those that believe in HIM as provision for our spiritual journey while in the container of flesh?

Denial is and can be a huge problem, yet denying ourselves is the beginning of being able to hear and see what is true, to be taught how to hear, to be silent and listen and only then DO what we do.

John 16:8-9
When he comes, he will convict the world of guilt in regard to sin and righteousness and judgment: 

in regard to sin, because men do not believe in me
NIV

To be continued.....

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